Dear Parishioners,
If you’ve been keeping score, we’ve been reading over the last six weeks continuously from the Gospel of Matthew. We take a pause this weekend and for the next month will read the Bread of Life discourse from the Gospel of John (chapter 6), starting with the multiplication of the loaves and fishes today. In September we will resume our narrative of Jesus’ ministry from the Gospel of Matthew.
Dear Parishioners,
A couple weeks ago I had the fortunate opportunity to fly out for two days on a mission trip to central Washington state to visit the Diocese of Yakima. I went with the Catholic Extension Society, the organization we partner with each year for our Lenten Almsgiving Project. Catholic Extension is a philanthropic organization headquartered here in Chicago that gives funds to “mission dioceses” across the United States. These are generally poor, rural areas who lack money, priests, and other resources. Saint Paul of the Cross, through our Lenten efforts in particular, has built churches and schools around the country for these poor communities, and helped in many other ways with various other efforts. It’s really quite remarkable what we’ve done.
Dear Parishioners,
Jesus sends out the twelve apostles on a mission to preach and heal right after his rejection at Nazareth. This must not have been the most encouraging preparation for the apostles. Our Lord could have sent them out on mission after he had all his successes around Galilee. But, no, he waits until after his first defeat. It’s like he wants the apostles, and all of us, to know that failure is not as bad as we think it is.
Father James Wallace grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and attended Sts. Faith Hope and Charity grammar school, New Trier High School, and then The George Washington University in Washington DC, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 2007. He attended seminary at The Pontifical North American College in Rome and was ordained a priest in 2012 for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In addition to being the pastor of Saint Paul of the Cross Parish, he serves as a canon lawyer for the Archdiocese, a dean in Vicariate II, and a professor of canon law and spiritual director at Mundelein Seminary. He is also one of the featured Mercy Home Sunday Mass celebrants, airing Sundays at 9:30am on WGN.
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